Weer'd World

So this morning the Mrs. was eating breakfast, but her stomach was still soft, and while the breakfast stayed down, she didn’t eat much. There was lots of talk of spending another night in the hospital.

Still before lunch the Physical Therapist showed up and they wandered around the floor for a bit. I guess the Mrs. impressed her as she was cleared for release with PT.

Lunch came, and the nurse gave her a dose of anti-nausea meds and she WOLFED down her meal. I was concered at the speed that the meal went down it might come up with the same vigor, but after eating she was exhausted and took a 2 hour nap.

After the nap I started asking how she felt about things. She was really tired, but overall the pain was controlled well with medicine, and her stomach felt good. We called the nurse and she cleared her for release, but told us we could take our time given it was now 4:30 pm and traffic was turning into a mess.

So I went out and filled some prescriptions, called some people to let them know the good news, and called a few other people to get somebody at the house to watch the Mrs. as I need to get some work done in the lab on Saturday.

Then we acquired a wheelchair and some hospital volunteers and sprung her into the night!

The Truck ride home was uneventful and the Mrs. did quite well. Got her upstairs and into bed with the greatest of ease, and got her filled with meds as the pain was starting to peak out.

Now she’s upstairs resting comfortably, so all I need to do is write a mass email and go to bed myself.

It will be nice not to be in bed alone!

Nite all!

So I’m home, and soon to go to bed. Today was a slow day for us, and not a lot of fun for anybody. The In-laws have headed to their respective houses because of the pending storm, and Mrs. Weer’d was feeling crummy and tired all day. She’s now on some nausea patch so her stomach can be settled, her pain is doing much better today. Still she’s very tired and slept for the majority of the day. This meant that when the Occupational Therapy people showed up she wasn’t in the mood to show them how strong she is.

Too early for a discharge today, hopefully tomorrow will be time for her to go home.

I’m going to bed so I can get in early before traffic gets bad. Wish us luck that both her health and the weather will cooperate!

Jay has a great Cruffler 101 post up. Go have a look.

As it so happens I saw a few things I just NEEDED to have at Midway USA which honors my C&R for an additional discount.

Go have a read!

Got some sleep, probably could have stood for a few more hours but oh well.

Yesterday impressed us all. Mrs. Weer’d was considerably more animated, she is now eating and drinking as well as using the bathroom on her own. She’s actually the least impressed with her progress only because the pain is really taking a lot of the fight out of her. When the pain is worst she doesn’t want to do anything, and when the meds kick in she’d prefer to be sleeping. That’s fine by all of us so long as she gets on the mend as quickly as she can so I can take her home.

According to the nurse who’s been doing such things for decades, the severe pain tends to only last about 36 hours which is right about now, so hopefully today the worst of the pain will subside and the Mrs. will feel more like doing those little things that most of us take for granted, but hospital nurses are rather impressed with.

Also the well-wishes are almost beyond belief (almost because I happened to be married to Mrs. Weer’d and know DAMN WELL she deserves every drop of support, and love!) my email boxes are filled, I’m sure her’s are too. The hit-counter here is through the roof. It really does help very much.

Ok I need to get pretty and catch a train. Have a good day everybody!

No link, but do you really need one?

“She doesn’t say exactly how it [Gun Registries] prevents suicide and domestic violence. Maybe it’s so obvious we can figure it out for ourselves. What do you think?” -MikeB302000

Well given that I’ve personally asked Mikey to present me with a single case where a gun registry (either the Canadian one, or the several in the United states, such as the one here in Massachusetts) have solved, or stopped a crime.

What’s obvious is Mr. B is pretty stupid. Stupid people support gun control, because smart people can look at the data and realize that it only limits freedoms and INCREASES crimes.

Of course Mike is most likely just trolling for comments and web traffic (hence no link), that doesn’t seem to be working out well either heh, and how many of those hits are just pro-gun people like me looking for stupid people like Mikey and Jade to step on their dicks?

Yeah.

They forecast that the Teaparty and other such organizations will lead to increases in Domestic Right-wing Terrorism

Three hostages — two Discovery Communications employees and a security guard — escaped unhurt after the four-hour standoff Wednesday in Silver Spring, just outside the nation’s capital. After several hours negotiating with the gunman, tactical officers moved in when authorities monitoring him on building security cameras saw him pull out a handgun and point it at a hostage, said Montgomery County Police Chief Thomas Manger.

Yikes, Glad everybody is Ok. Why’d he do this? Was he mad we elected a Black man as President? Did he want the Bush Tax cuts to remain permanent? Was he angry about Maryland’s gun laws? Did he not want European-style socialist healthcare?

It wasn’t the first time Lee, a homeless former Californian, had targeted Discovery’s headquarters. In February 2008, he was charged with disorderly conduct for staging a “Save the Planet Protest.” In court and online, he had demanded an end to Discovery Communications LLC’s shows such as TLC’s “Kate Plus 8″ and “19 Kids and Counting.”

Instead, he said, the network should air “programs encouraging human sterilization and infertility.”

“Humans are the most destructive, filthy, pollutive creatures around and are wrecking what’s left of the planet with their false morals and breeding cultures,” Lee wrote in a bitter manifesto on his website.

I’m sure they found a John Birch card in his wallet…..heh, more likely they found some interesting propaganda on his video shelf.

Also why are they so liberal with the term “Gunman”?

“I have several bombs strapped to my body ready to go off. I have a device that if I drop it, if I drop it, it will … explode,” the man told NBC.

He said he built the bombs in about three weeks. “I did a lot of research. I had to experiment,” he said.

It does sound like the bombs were not real, or not functional, as it appears only Mr. Lee died, apparently by his own hand. But what do you think was more of a concern to Police, the gun in his hand or the “Bombs” strapped to his body?

And one final word, its hard for a nut to take an armed hostage hostage….

Just sayin’

This guy does! How bout some Bollywood Cheeze?

Hells yeah! What I’m pissed is the clip ends before the Victory song-and-dance number (hopefully with 7-8 costume and set changes) begins.

OK I want a song-and-dance now:

I figgin’ need to buy this movie. This number is from “Bichoo” (Which IIRC in Hindi means “Scorpion”) which is a Bollywood remake of my most favorite film in the universe “Leon” Yep the dude in the goofy clothes doing the Caucasian Dork Dance (May I be a tad racist and say that Indian men do a VASTLY better job at emulating the whole “White Guy” stereotypes?….Prolly why RockStar loves Vector so much, dude is so white he might as well be Indian! hehehehe) is the badass freelance assassin, and the lady is the “Young” girl who falls in love with him. Oh and Leon’s plant? Its been replaced by a scorpion.

If any of this makes sense to you, please explain it to me! : ]

For those wanting to read stuff other than brain surgery (I’m one!) have a listen to this one:

I hope he tries, I can’t see how any such attempt would do anything but benefit us kicking their asses in November!

Sorry I didn’t write an update last night, I was planning to, but once I got home, talked to a few more family and friends (attempted to send a MONSTER email out to Mrs. Weer’ds coworkers and college buddies who are scattered to the four corners of the globe, but something kept screwing up, I’ll try that again this morning) I just crashed and burned.

Where we left off, we got word she was transferred from recovery to ICU. Overall the ICU bit is more of a precaution than anything serious. The doctors said she’d be the best looking person on ICU, and I won’t lie, I peeked into a few beds and they were right.

That being said she wasn’t going to win any beauty contests that night, she was pretty swollen, will likely have a heck of a black eye, and was generally feeling pretty lousy from the anesthesia, the pain meds, and just the stress of surgery. She wasn’t in any pain tho, and just really wanted to sleep.

Still while we were standing there the nurse came in to give her an evaluation which required her to open her eyes. The nurse asked her to identify us and she did with no problem.

Also we met with one of the residents doing the rounds and they said she was doing really good, and that just all the stress from the medications and surgery would just make her feel lousy, but she should bounce back pretty quickly.

Being that ICU isn’t meant for visitors, and the fact that it looked like her eyelids weighed 500lbs each, we all packed up and went home for the night. Felt like kind of a raw deal leaving her there, but I knew it was the best option.

I just called this morning to check in with the floor nurse. She says she’s doing just fine, and has just been sleeping except for when the nurses have to go check on her. The shift changes at 7, and the floor will conference before 8, so I’ll call back at 0800 to see if they’re going to be moving her, of if they’ll be keeping her there. Then I’m headed back to bean-town to spend the day with her.

Thanks so much for all your well wishes, prayers, support and love, its really meant a lot for all of us. Just like she did when she was in the Epilepsy monitoring suite, she’ll be reading all your comments when she’s feeling up to it, and I suspect they’ll be just as moving for her as they were then, if not more.

Also as of midnight Weer’d World had 362 unique IP addresses (Ok I was using 3 different devices to post updates and keep up with comments, so 3 of those are mine) and 888 (!) page views according to sitemeter. That’s just an amazing level of concern, and thanks so much for all your support.

I may throw some more updates down here as the day goes on.